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# Observability

- Type: engineering capability
- Group: Operations and risks
- Placement: Operations / Observation and objectives
- [Source](<https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/observability-primer/>)

[HTML](https://dpm.cnonim.name/practices/observability/)

Logs, metrics, and traces help investigate the internal behavior of a running system.

## Relationships

- provides signals for: [Actionable Alerting](/practices/alerting/en.md) (support)
- helps assess: [Canary Release](/practices/canary/en.md) (verification)
- provides measurements for: [Capacity Planning](/practices/capacity/en.md) (support)
- provides experiment data for: [Chaos Engineering](/practices/chaos/en.md) (verification)
- provides evidence for: [Systematic Debugging](/practices/debugging/en.md) (support)
- provides evidence for: [Blameless Postmortems](/practices/postmortem/en.md) (support)
- provides data for: [Service Level Objectives](/practices/slo/en.md) (verification)

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